Editing Kidney (section)

===Nerve supply===
The kidney and [[nervous system]] communicate via the [[renal plexus]], whose fibers course along the renal arteries to reach each kidney.<ref name="Bard">{{cite book |vauthors=Bard J, Vize PD, Woolf AS |title=The kidney: from normal development to congenital disease |publisher=Academic Press |location=Boston |year=2003 |page=154 |isbn=978-0-12-722441-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ctOm-cPwo60C&pg=PA154 |access-date=2020-10-19 |archive-date=2023-08-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230817171609/https://books.google.com/books?id=ctOm-cPwo60C&pg=PA154 |url-status=live }}</ref> Input from the [[sympathetic nervous system]] triggers [[vasoconstriction]] in the kidney, thereby reducing [[renal blood flow]].<ref name="Bard"/> The kidney also receives input from the [[parasympathetic nervous system]],<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Cheng |first1=Xiaofeng |last2=Zhang |first2=Yongsheng |last3=Chen |first3=Ruixi |last4=Qian |first4=Shenghui |last5=Lv |first5=Haijun |last6=Liu |first6=Xiuli |last7=Zeng |first7=Shaoqun |date=December 2022 |title=Anatomical Evidence for Parasympathetic Innervation of the Renal Vasculature and Pelvis |journal=Journal of the American Society of Nephrology |language=en |volume=33 |issue=12 |pages=2194–2210 |doi=10.1681/ASN.2021111518 |issn=1046-6673 |pmc=9731635 |pmid=36253054}}</ref> by way of the renal branches of the [[vagus nerve]]; the function of this is yet unclear.<ref name="Bard"/><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Schrier RW, Berl T | title = Mechanism of the antidiuretic effect associated with interruption of parasympathetic pathways | journal = The Journal of Clinical Investigation | volume = 51 | issue = 10 | pages = 2613–2620 | date = October 1972 | pmid = 5056657 | pmc = 332960 | doi = 10.1172/JCI107079 }}</ref> Sensory input from the kidney travels to the T10–11 levels of the [[spinal cord]] and is sensed in the corresponding [[dermatome (anatomy)|dermatome]].<ref name="Bard"/> Thus, pain in the flank region may be referred from corresponding kidney.<ref name="Bard"/>